WiseTech Global Ltd (ASX: WTC) shares have been in the spotlight over the past few weeks. Never far from fresh controversy, it seems, Wisetech was smashed earlier this month when allegations came to light that its co-founder and current executive chairman, Richard White, was being investigated by the Australian Federal Police's human trafficking division.
In response, Wisetech shares fell a horrid 18.44% in one session. Despite robust denials from White and some share price recovery since, the company remains down by more than 10% from where it was prior to that share price crash.
Wisetech has always been a volatile stock. It has delighted investors with the success of its logistics software suite, which includes the flagship and popular CargoWise platform. However, it has also courted pushback, particularly from the actions of White, who has faced several scandals through the years.
At today's pricing, Wisetech shares remain down a whopping 52% year to date in 2026, down an even more shocking 70% over the past 12 months, and more than 75% from the all-time highs of around $140 a share we saw in late 2024.
Wisetech is primarily known as one of the ASX's most prominent growth stocks. However, as we've documented before, it is also a bit of a dividend income sleeper.
Despite its enthusiastic dividend growth over many years, the dividend yield on Wisetech shares has arguably never stood out, given it hasn't risen above 1% in a very long time (if ever).
Saying that, could things be different after the share price carnage of this month? After all, dividend yields rise when a company's share price falls, all else being equal. Let's check it out.
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WiseTech shares: How big is your yield?
At the time of writing, Wisetech shares are trading at $33.17 each, up a healthy 2% for the day thus far. At this price, Wisetech shares are trading on a trailing dividend yield of 0.64%.
That comes from Wisetech's last two dividend payments. The first of those was the October final dividend, worth 7.7 US cents (11.56 cents) per share. The second was the April interim dividend, which came in at 6.8 US cents (9.7 cents). Together, this total of 14.5 US cents (21.26 cents) per share gives us that 0.64% yield at the current stock price.
Of course, this doesn't tell us that Wisetech shares will continue to yield 0.64% going forward. The company would have to, at the minimum, keeps its 2026 and 2027 dividends steady with what it has paid out over the past 12 months, for that to occur. And there's no way of determining what a company's future dividends will be until that company tells us.
However, Wisetech does have a strong track record of delivering dividend hikes. Since mid-2017, every interim and final dividend the company has declared has been a year-on-year increase over the payment that preceded it.
No doubt shareholders will be hoping that Wiestech hits its ten-year streak in 2027. But we shall have to wait and see.
